raid

See also: RAID and ráid

English

Alternative forms

• rade (Scotland)

Etymology

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

raid (plural raids)

1. (military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.

   Synonyms: attack, foray, incursion

   • 1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 109:

     Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.

   • 1872, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, volume 1, page 315:

     There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.

2. (law enforcement) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.

   Synonym: irruption

   a police raid of a narcotics factory

   a raid of contractors on the public treasury

   • 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman‎^[1]:

     For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.

3. (sports) An attacking movement.
   • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.

4. (Internet slang) An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
   • 2017 November 3, Ethan Gach, “What Twitch's New Raiding System Means For Streamers”, in Kotaku‎^[3], archived from the original on November 9, 2017:

     Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to participate in the positive aspects of raiding.

   • 2017 October 20, Sarah Perez, “Twitch unveils a suite of new tools to help creators grow their channels and make money”, in TechCrunch‎^[4], archived from the original on November 4, 2017:

     Now streamers can use a new feature that lets their viewers join a raid then drive traffic to another streamer with just a click.

5. (online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
6. (social media) An event involving one or more users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.
   • 2022 January 28, D4TBOl, “I need some help with preventing raids”, in Reddit‎^[5], archived from the original on 2024-09-06, r/discordapp:

     I used the tools discord gave me to prevent raids but he somehow knows a bypass, I use bots and they do help prevent it but just having him ping 90 guys once makes people bash me for an entire hour.

   • 2022 March 7, AcousticJamm, “Raid prevention tools”, in Reddit‎^[6], r/guilded:

     Raids are a problem on Guilded. I have been in many servers that have been raided by a user with an account gen or even just some users looking to cause trouble and ruin the communities for us [...]

Derived terms

• air raid, air-raid
• Baedeker raid
• bear raid
• corporate raid
• dawn raid
• panty raid
• ram-raid
• ram raid
• Zoom raid

Translations

military: quick hostile or predatory incursion

• Arabic: مُدَاهَمَة f (mudāhama)
• Finnish: rynnäkkö (fi)
• Georgian: შეჭრა (šeč̣ra)
• Hungarian: roham (hu)
• Macedonian: ју́риш m (júriš)
• Serbo-Croatian: juriš (sh) m
• Spanish: incursión (es) m, correría (es) f, razia (es) f, raid (es) m, rebato (es) m
• Tagalog: pagsalakay

attack for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering

• Arabic: غَارَة f (ḡāra), غَزْوَة f (ḡazwa)
• Belarusian: рэйд m (rejd), налёт m (naljót), абла́ва f (abláva)
• Bulgarian: на́бег (bg) m (nábeg), рейд (bg) m (rejd)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 襲擊 / 袭击 (zh) (xíjī), 突擊搜查 / 突击搜查 (tūjī sōuchá)

• Czech: razie f, nájezd (cs) m, nálet (cs) m (air raid)
• Danish: razzia c
• Dutch: razzia (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: razio
• Estonian: haarang, reid (et)
• Finnish: ratsia (fi) (for making arrests); rynnäkkö (fi)
• French: raid (fr) m, razzia (fr) f, descente (fr) f, rafle (fr) f
• Galician: saída (gl) f (archaic)
• Georgian: რეიდი (reidi), დარბევა (darbeva)
• German: Razzia (de) f, Überfall (de) m
• Greek: επιδρομή (el) f (epidromí), καταδρομή (el) f (katadromí), έφοδος (el) f (éfodos)

  Ancient: ἐπιδρομή f (epidromḗ)

• Hebrew: פְּשִׁיטָה f
• Hindi: हमला (hi) m (hamlā)
• Hungarian: razzia (hu), rajtaütés (hu)
• Indonesian: (for making arrests) penggerebekan (id), razia (id)
• Italian: incursione (it) f, razzia (it) f, irruzione (it) f, rapina (it) f, attacco (it) m
• Japanese: 襲撃 (ja) (しゅうげき, shūgeki), 急襲 (ja) (きゅうしゅう, kyūshū)
• Kapampangan: salake
• Korean: 습격(襲擊) (ko) (seupgyeok), 급습(急襲) (ko) (geupseup)
• Latin: excursus m
• Latvian: reids m
• Lithuanian: reidas m
• Macedonian: у́пад m (úpad), на́лет m (nálet), пре́пад m (prépad), рација f (racija)
• Malay: serbuan (ms)
• Maori: tukinga, upokotaua
• Ottoman Turkish: صویغون (soygun), تاراج (tarac), چاپول (çapul)
• Persian: حمله (fa) (hamle)
• Polish: najście n, najazd (pl) m, nalot (pl) m
• Portuguese: invasão (pt) f, ataque (pt) m, busca (pt)
• Romanian: razie (ro) f
• Russian: рейд (ru) m (rejd), налёт (ru) m (naljót), обла́ва (ru) f (obláva)
• Serbo-Croatian: racija (sh) f

  Cyrillic: пре́пад m

  Roman: prépad (sh) m

• Slovak: razia f, nájazd m
• Slovene: napad (sl) m
• Spanish: invasión (es) f, ataque (es) m, asedio (es) m, redada (es) f, saqueo (es) m, allanamiento (es) m, batida (es) f, correría (es) f, requisamiento m (Americanism)
• Swahili: uvamizi (sw)
• Swedish: räd (sv) c, razzia (sv) c
• Tagalog: salakay, pagsalakay
• Tajik: ҳамла (hamla)
• Turkish: baskın (tr)
• Ukrainian: рейд m (rejd), налі́т m (nalít), обла́ва (uk) f (obláva)
• Urdu: حملہ m (hamlā)
• Yiddish: אָבלאַווע f (oblave)

sports: attacking movement

• Finnish: hyökkäys (fi)

Verb

raid (third-person singular simple present raids, present participle raiding, simple past and past participle raided)

1. (transitive) To engage in a raid against.

   The police raided the gambling den.

   The soldiers raided the village and burned it down.

   A group of mobsters raided an art museum and stole a bunch of paintings.

   Someone has been banned from Discord for raiding a server.

2. (transitive) To lure from another; to entice away from.
3. (transitive) To indulge oneself by taking from.

   I raided the fridge for snacks.

Derived terms

• caught raiding the cookie jar
• raider
• ramraid

Descendants

• → Spanish: raid
• → French: raid
• → Italian: raid
• → Polish: rajd
• → Romanian: raid
• → Swedish: räd

Translations

to engage in a raid

• Azerbaijani: basqın etmək
• Bulgarian: нахлувам (bg) (nahluvam)
• Finnish: ratsata (fi) (police); rynnäköidä (fi) (military); hyökätä (fi) (general)
• German: überfallen (de)
• Hungarian: rajtaüt (hu)
• Irish: creach, slad (ga)
• Maori: whakatoke, konihi
• Russian: налета́ть (ru) impf (naletátʹ), налете́ть (ru) pf (naletétʹ)
• Spanish: saquear (es), expoliar (es), catear (es), allanar (es), disused: predar / prear (es), despojar (es), requisar (es)
• Tagalog: sumalakay, salakayin
• Turkish: baskın yapmak (tr)
• Welsh: gwanu (cy)

to lure from another

to indulge oneself by taking from

• Finnish: hyökätä (fi)

Anagrams

• Radi, Rida, arid, dira, Dair, dari, riad, Aird, Irad, Dari, IARD

Basque

Etymology

From Spanish raid, from English raid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rai̯d/, [rai̯ð̞]

Noun

raid inan

1. (military) raid

   Synonym: razzia

2. long-distance race, rally

Declension

Declension of raid (inanimate, ending in consonant)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	raid	raida	raidak
ergative	raidek	raidak	raidek
dative	raidi	raidari	raidei
genitive	raiden	raidaren	raiden
comitative	raidekin	raidarekin	raidekin
causative	raidengatik	raidarengatik	raidengatik
benefactive	raidentzat	raidarentzat	raidentzat
instrumental	raidez	raidaz	raidez
inessive	raidetan	raidean	raidetan
locative	raidetako	raideko	raidetako
allative	raidetara	raidera	raidetara
terminative	raidetaraino	raideraino	raidetaraino
directive	raidetarantz	raiderantz	raidetarantz
destinative	raidetarako	raiderako	raidetarako
ablative	raidetatik	raidetik	raidetatik
partitive	raidik	—	—
prolative	raidtzat	—	—

Further reading

• “raid”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Emilian

Etymology

Cognate with Italian rete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrajd/

Noun

raid f (plural raid)

1. net

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛd/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: raide, raides, raids

Noun

raid m (plural raids)

1. (military) raid

Derived terms

• raid aérien

Further reading

• “raid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dira, rida

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrajd/, /ˈrɛjd/, /ˈrejd/
• Rhymes: -ajd, -ɛjd, -ejd
• Hyphenation: ràid

Noun

raid m (invariable)

1. raid, incursion
2. long-distance race or rally

Anagrams

• Idra, ardi, ardì, dari, dirà, idra, radi, rida, ridà

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French raid, from English raid, from Scots raid.

Noun

raid n (plural raiduri)

1. raid

Declension

Declension of raid

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	raid	raidul		raiduri	raidurile
genitive-dative	raid	raidului		raiduri	raidurilor
vocative	raidule			raidurilor

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English rade, northern variant of rode, from Old English rād.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /red/

Noun

raid (plural raids)

1. raid

Descendants

• → English: raid, rade (Scotland)
  • → Spanish: raid
  • → French: raid
  • → Italian: raid
  • → Polish: rajd
  • → Romanian: raid
  • → Swedish: räd

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraid/ [ˈrai̯ð̞]
• Rhymes: -aid
• Syllabification: raid

Noun

raid m (plural raides)

1. raid (military)
2. attempt
3. long-distance race

Further reading

• “raid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “raid”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *raita, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *spraiþō.

Noun

raid

1. willow

Inflection

Inflection of raid (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	raid
genitive sing.	raidan
partitive sing.	raidad
partitive plur.	raidoid
	singular	plural
nominative	raid	raidad
accusative	raidan	raidad
genitive	raidan	raidoiden
partitive	raidad	raidoid
essive-instructive	raidan	raidoin
translative	raidaks	raidoikš
inessive	raidas	raidoiš
elative	raidaspäi	raidoišpäi
illative	raidaha	raidoihe
adessive	raidal	raidoil
ablative	raidalpäi	raidoilpäi
allative	raidale	raidoile
abessive	raidata	raidoita
comitative	raidanke	raidoidenke
prolative	raidadme	raidoidme
approximative I	raidanno	raidoidenno
approximative II	raidannoks	raidoidennoks
egressive	raidannopäi	raidoidennopäi
terminative I	raidahasai	raidoihesai
terminative II	raidalesai	raidoilesai
terminative III	raidassai	—
additive I	raidahapäi	raidoihepäi
additive II	raidalepäi	raidoilepäi